Isaiah 30:27–32

ANNIHILATION OF THE ASSYRIANS

27 Look! The name of the Lord

his anger burning and heavy with smoke.A

His lips are full of fury,

and his tongue is like a consuming fire.

28 His breath is like an overflowing torrentk

that rises to the neck.l

He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction

and to put a bridle on the jaws of the peoples

to lead them astray.m

29 Your singing will be like that

on the night of a holy festival,

and your heart will rejoice

like one who walks to the music of a flute,

going up to the mountain of the Lord,

to the Rock of Israel.n

30 And the Lord will make the splendor of his voice heard

and reveal his armo striking in angry wrath

and a flame of consuming fire,

in driving rain, a torrent, and hailstones.

31 Assyria will be shattered by the voice of the Lord.

He will strike with a rod.

32 And every stroke of the appointedB staff

that the Lord brings down on him

will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres;

he will fight against him with brandished weapons.